Arts & culture

There are numerous sources of information on life as a LGBT(I) person in the different countries where Denmark are engaged in developmental partnerships: Magazines, references to book titles, film clips or references to these. And at LGBTnet.dk we have started to include these in our resources. Read about for example the newest issue of Qzine - African’s only magazine of LGBTI arts and culture. Find them in our extensive database of resources.

The lack of knowledge about LGBT asylum seekers and refugees in NGOs has received particular attention in Scotland in a 2011 report by the equality network Bemis and Gramnet. It shows that some voluntary sector organisations working with asylum seekers and refugees in Scotland do not see LGBT asylum as a core part of their work and those organisations already doing work are struggling to cope within existing resources. Little work has been done at a community level to challenge homophobia or transphobia within refugee communities.

Most importantly the report calls for a system that actively celebrates providing sanctuary to those fleeing persecution and has a support system in place built around concepts of fairness, dignity and respect. This can only be achieved by bringing more people together to support LGBT asylum seekers/refugees and to create links between organisations, lawyers, academics and activists already working in the fields of equality and human rights.

Recommendations

As a result of close collaboration between activists, development professionals and academics, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) have published a collection of articles relating to the intersection between gender, sexuality and social justice. Read and learn from these 32 different angles from all over the world on this pertinent issue.

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